April 1, 2011
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Program Result
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Nursing established an electronic database of the most promising initiatives being used by public health agencies to address the problem of disparities.
January 28, 2011
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Program Result
Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice for Healthy Youth Behavior conducts research on how laws, policies, practices, programs and other environmental influences at the state, community and school levels affect youth behaviors.
June 1, 2001
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Program Result
Investigators at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York, developed a smoking-cessation program for ethnically diverse, low-income women who are pregnant.
October 1, 2002
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Program Result
The Health Research and Educational Trust, Chicago, convened the Sixth National Community Care Network Conference, "Beyond the Barriers: Building Innovative Networks of Care."
October 1, 1997
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Program Result
From 1994 to 1997, staff at The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, developed a tuberculosis (TB) screening and prevention program by linking health care resources aimed at the control of tuberculosis, with community-based resources for under-served populations in Baltimore City.
March 1, 2005
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Program Result
From 2000 through 2003, researchers from the Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, Ore., implemented and evaluated a tobacco cessation program that dentists provided to low-income people in public clinics.
December 1, 2003
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Program Result
Investigators at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University examined how states addressed substance abuse treatment and prevention as they implemented reforms in their welfare programs.
May 1, 2001
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Program Result
Between 1993 and 1999, the American Association for World Health, Washington, organized three annual meetings.
April 1, 2008
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Program Result
The University of California, San Francisco, examined ways in which different socioeconomic and racial/ethnic groups might fare in the event of an influenza pandemic and recommended approaches to reducing inequities and adverse health outcomes.
December 9, 2010
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Program Result
In 2005 tobacco control leaders formed the Consumer Demand Roundtable to shift the tobacco control field to seeing smokers as consumers of cessation products and services by making treatments more appealing and consumer friendly.
